Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability)

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability) to join our remote team in Spain. At Affirm, we are reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is crucial in helping our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect our customers’ experience.

Responsibilities

• Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance
• Guiding the development of Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process
• Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices
• Engaging in service and architectural conversations
• Recommending observability and alerting configurations

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages like Bash, Python, or Kotlin.
• Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Meaningful experience contributing in or driving parts of the Incident Lifecycle process.
• 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team.
• Demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
• Experience in making impactful changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

We Offer

• Compensation: Base pay range of €86,000 - €122,000 per year.
• Equity: Equity Grade 4.
• Benefits:
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle.
  • Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge.
  • Learning & Development programs.
  • Parental benefit.
  • Employee Resource & Community Groups.
  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
  • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

About the Company

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first.

Location

• Remote Spain
• Visa sponsorship is available, but you must be based in Spain for the role.

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